Posts by ttdtt

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1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

by StopTheTears in

jw
friends

how in the world did they justify this torture?

imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

for 8 days.

ttdtt

I have a bunch of family members and friends in our hall and area who went.

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reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

ttdtt

jookbeard - what you are describing is the SOP of most pioneers. Drive around - waste time - get coffee.

That is not an indicator of the GB dropping what has become the least effective means of gaining new cult members:)

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My boyfriend is thinking of becoming reinstated

by gypsyvine in

i'm not really sure where to post this.. i've been with my boyfriend for 4 months now and i've really never been happier.

i was brought up in the church of christ with an elder father and i really believe in my religion, although i will admit to being a lousy christian at times due to sheer laziness (not wanting to get out of bed on sunday).

my boyfriend essentially lives with me.

ttdtt

Your happiness will soon end if he gets reinstated and wants to really be a JW.

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How many times have the GB been wrong?

by atomant in

actually its quite amusing to observe the different reactions from within the org every time theres new light.how dumb does a person have to be to not realize its all a conjob.surely a thinking logical person would question all the changes over the years.lts almost like the blind leading the blind scenario.

ttdtt

You mean How Many Times have they committed Apostasy by going against or changing teachings established by the Anointed? :)

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Can God do everything? Can he sin?

by James Mixon in

reading this and it made me think, god cannot do everything.

god is holy and he cannot.

sin.

ttdtt

A different way to look at this is - if there is a god - is this the best he can do?

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Can God do everything? Can he sin?

by James Mixon in

reading this and it made me think, god cannot do everything.

god is holy and he cannot.

sin.

ttdtt

Can god make a Bolder so big he cant Lift it?

:)

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Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

by MicaSmith in

can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

it's bewildering.

ttdtt

It means they can keep this thing going for another 40 years without having to change it again.

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So... Are they done printing the number of partakers?

by thedepressedsoul in

during the wt study yesterday i had a confused look on my face the whole meeting.

more of a, wtf, face.

one paragraph says, "therefore,the number of partakers does not accurately indicate the number of anointed ones left on earth.".

ttdtt

You kinda feel like that's coming - but I don't think they can get away with that.

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Another generation....

by joey jojo in

it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?

the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.

the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.

ttdtt

This says it all I think

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Another generation....

by joey jojo in

it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?

the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.

the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.

ttdtt

You are 100% right about the old ones dying off and the R&F losing that institutional memory.

But they also count on the training we all got to just go with what they say because they are speaking for god.
Reminds me of this from 1984.

BLACKWHITE: Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.
— Orwell, 1984